Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection

With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate ,Pleasure, Painpresents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, I igo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individiual works.Smith, Elizabeth A. T. is the author of 'Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection' with ISBN 9780933856738 and ISBN 0933856733.